American Animals Book Review
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American animals book review. Based on a book of real life events, “american animals” depicts eric borsuk and three friends stealing a rare original copy of darwin’s “on the origin of species” only to try to sell it. American animals marks the narrative directorial debut of documentarian bart layton. The film premiered at the 2018 sundance film festival on january 19, 2018 and was released in the united states on june 1.
American animals movie reviews & metacritic score: Written and directed by bart. American animals is a 2018 crime docudrama film written and directed by bart layton.the film stars evan peters, barry keoghan, blake jenner, jared abrahamson, and ann dowd.it is based on a real life library heist at transylvania university in lexington, kentucky in 2004.
The title of american animals has a genetic link to the annual darwin awards, which chart the ways in which “humankind is a devolving species.” the time is 2004, and the protagonists are four. That like darwin's evolution, four young american men, coming from a comfortable middle class, make a survival choice to rob a library of treasured books like originals of audubon's birds of america and darwin's origin of the species. Documentarian bart layton blurs the line between fact and fiction in his compelling heist drama.
American animals tells the story of four friends who after a visit to transylvania university, in kentucky, came up with the idea to steal the rarest and most valuable books from the school's library A review of “american animals”. Based on a botched 2004 robbery, layton’s script concerns spencer reinhard (the brilliant barry keoghan), an art student with notions.
It's a heist film that uses actors to tell a true story, and. They head off to colleges in the same town. 1, 2019 kirkus reviews issue:
“american animals” saddles us with four smirking, privileged men who, simply because they were bored with life in lexington, kentucky, decided to beat the piss out of a vulnerable older librarian in order to steal a $12 million book too big for them to carry. It is meant to be funny but the humour sours very quickly on the day of the actual robbery (which is the day after they originally planned it). In ‘american animals,’ these guys didn’t visit the library to study.